And yet it is religion which justifies these actions. Please consider reading Sam Harris' "The End of Faith", which outlines in detail why the continued survival of our species can no longer tolerate attitudes such as your own.
"Common Sense" means little more than "this is what I think right now".
Huh. Unhelpful and a dick. Madam, I salute you!
Please explain more.
-XX11 is useful as its +1 faster than -XX10, should be the default really.
I hear they're contemplating a "-XX12" option that threatens to rip asunder the very fabric of time and space.
I've tried SpiderOak a couple of times because the client-side encryption is a massive selling feature.
However, the interface is convoluted, to say the least. It's frustrating to have this massively complicated application to just synchronize a directory, when Dropbox, for the most part, doesn't have an interface at all. I want to point SpiderOak at a directory and forget about it. Unfortunately, I can't. And after several weeks of worry (and several lost files), I always end up back at Dropbox.
Let's not pretend that copyright doesn't have a good purpose.
Why not? Copyright is one of those things that has been with us for so long that it has begun to sound right. But the evidence suggests the contrary. Please google and read "Against Intellectual Monopoly" for a comprehensive discussion.
Why shouldn't we abolish IP entirely? The science says it's a net harm to society, and history says we get on fine without it.
I've never heard of this, but it sounds brilliant. Do you have any suggestions/search terms/links for more information?
Sounds great. Could you lend me $20 for the cab ride to the bank so I can arrange the wire?
Make it 60% and you have yourself a deal!
Zing! You showed him. And if he had been working at a launch station, would you then say, "Yes, but were the space ships blue? Because if they weren't your CLEARLY SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE IN A DIRECTLY RELATED FIELD IS WORTHLESS!"
Well done, sir. Well done.
As I read the first line of your comment, I thought to myself, "I'm going to post a reply saying, 'But it's turtles all the way down.'".
Then I read the second line of your post and saw that the reason I thought of turtles is because that's exactly where you were going.
In any case, I laughed.
And then I'd file a false complaint against it being a copyright violation in France.
It would be a Hadopi dupe dupe Hadoop.
But I digress...
Here's my suggested fix:
Move away from rating things +1 Insightful... to a simple "Agree or Disagree". Give a bonus for rating up or down posts that haven't been rated yet.
Now, and here's the neat bit, allow people to filter the posts according to the best rated posts they agree with, and the best rated posts they disagree with.
This way people will be presented with argument and counter argument, instead of just group-think.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
